BUD YORKIN, seen here accepting the David Susskind Lifetime Achievement Award Television in 2003, died on August 18 aged 89. He directed and produced some of the most influential and memorable television shows of the Seventies, including All in the Family and The Jeffersons. Yorkin won six Emmy Awards, a Peabody, a Sylvania and a Director’s Guild Award. All in the Family introduced Americans to the openly bigoted, blue-collar worker, Archie Bunker, and the use of television comedy as a medium for social commentary. In 1957, he wrote, directed, and produced An Evening With Fred Astaire, which earned 9 Emmys for Best Writing, Best Direction and Best Musical Special.